Management of Femur and Tibial Leg Length Discrepancies With a Unilateral External Fixator Is Still Viable When More Advanced Techniques and Hardware Are Unavailable or Cost-Prohibitive

Introduction Leg length discrepancy (LLD) is an infrequent diagnosis, most commonly occurring congenitally in children and rarely in traumatic incidents in adults. Circumferential external fixators are considered the optimal treatment method, but can be very costly and are not always readily availab...

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Autores principales: Borici, Neritan, Ezeokoli, Ekene U, Ruci, Julian, Olldashi, Taulant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154982
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21010

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154982
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21010

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